Show DEMAND IS DENIED BY JAPANESE Staff at Tokio Is Issues Issues Issues Is- Is sues Statement on Erroneous Erroneous Erroneous Er Er- Reports TOKIO OKIO Friday I Oct Dental 3 Denial that Japanese threatened to 10 back the thes s acks against the Americans Americana In the ent ont incident at Iman north of or or that any apology was by the Americans is la made madea a a. statement Issued by the Japanese eral staff here toda today The state state- nt follows follows- According to facts fact which have ha been by the Japanese arm army two were arrested by Cossacks the charge of ot having prevented pre b by byce byca ce ca the discharge of ot his Ius duty dUlY b by a aMack Mack ack officer at Iman Siberia on 4 4 The Americans were to on Septem- Septem 6 G. G On the same day three com com- ties lies of ot American troops with mat mae maguns ma- ma t e guns gun arrived at Ima One com coin corny corn corn- y deployed against Cossacks In the of or the Japanese garrison e two others were disposed In the then n n lt itself ARRESTED wo wo 0 Cossacks military policemen re ro arrested by the Americans who vho left leCt The headquarters the Japanese garrison volunteered good offices and through Its Inter- Inter the Cossacks willingly ro- ro I ned the tho arrested Americans to the I of ot the Fourteenth Japa Japa- I e t division Simultaneously the returned the Cossacks they 1 arrested It is ts absolutely untrue t any apolo apology was demanded or ors ort ort ort t the Japanese n e threatened e to b back eth th fe Cossacks s If the Americans c s did return the captured military po- po men REPORTS reports stated that two t soldiers Captain L L. P I P. P Johns the Twenty seventh seventh regiment and Benjamin Sperling of the rt first rt first were arrested at Iman Imin by sacks on a charge of ot not having on r persons Identification papers and Corporal Sperling had been ed ro by his hiA captors It was said Captain Johns escaped and went pa Ake where he ho reported the tho In- In nt to his commanding officer er an American detachment was to have hae gone to Iman where the thease ass ase so of oC Sperling was demanded It stated that a Japanese major In- In eded for tor tho the Cossacks stating it alleged that if it hostilities devel- devel between the Americans and Coss Cosa Cos Cos- es s a the tho Japanese would side with latter It was Vas subsequently learned Ie-arned Sperling had been en taken to I Kha- Kha hank ha- ha sk General headers headers head head- ers to which a a. telegraphic ded ded ded de de- d for his release wa waC was sent lIe He immediately released by the he Cos- Cos authorities It was all sal said and later polol was as made by General Gene Hoff Ho- Ho ff Cl commander of ot the Cossacks Ined fined In- In ed ed to General ral Graves Grates tho the Amen Ameri- i commander i |